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When recycle started?

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I need online page that tells me when recycle started its a project in school i gotta do

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  2. A long time ago, in a rural town far beyond the mighty Delaware River, a man built a palace out of trash. Legend had it that he once held great fortune found at the Klondike, Alaska, gold rush in 1898, and that years later he moved to San Francisco and invested his gold in stocks. Because of the California earthquake of 1906, he lost part of his fortune and moved to New York, only to lose the rest of his fortune on Wall Street, as a victim of the crash of 1929.

    Some accounts quote the man as saying an angel, or perhaps a dream, called him to Vineland, N.J. There, on South Mill Road off Landis Avenue, he would find new fortune. So George Daynor, who had almost nothing, used his meager means to construct a castle out of car parts and cement, and over time more than 250,000 would come to see it.

        

    Rubble with a cause: Local construction companies donated leftover materials for the Palace project. Photo By:

    Michael T. Regan  

    "It's like a Tim Burton film waiting to happen," Jeffrey Robert Tirante, Vineland's self-titled resident artist, says with childlike enthusiasm. Tirante, who grew up in Vineland, attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Today he commutes to Jersey from Port Richmond to work as organizer of the Palace of Depression Restoration Association Inc., a group looking to recreate the tourist attraction/curiosity that was built by George Daynor in the early 1930s.

    The story of the Palace -- which flourished throughout the '40s, progressively deteriorated throughout the '50s, and reached its final demise in demolition in 1969 -- has kept Tirante tangled up for the past three years. Much of the creator's background, as well as the Palace itself, seems to be fantastical legend spliced with truth.

    Daynor, a bush-bearded man who resembled an eerie Santa Claus or an elderly Walt Whitman, moved to Vineland in 1929. With minimal capital, he bought not-so-prime real estate. The land was a dump, a swampy automobile graveyard. But Daynor was an entrepreneur, a self-starter. Working with refuse -- car parts, mostly -- and a homemade mud mortar, Daynor completed his multicolored, 18-spired fairy-tale-esque castle. "[Daynor] fashioned the structure from a great variety of odds and ends and named it the ŒPalace of Depression,' because it kept him busy and happy during three lean years when he couldn't seem to find a place for himself in the jumbled economic scheme," wrote Robert Ripley in his news comic Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1938.

    According to Tirante, Daynor said he built it to show that the Great Depression was beatable. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch put it in June 1937, "...anyone who sights George Daynor's house stares, possibly gasps and inevitably wonders."

    An extravagant mess, the Palace had two floors and a basement; altogether, there were well over a dozen rooms, including two kitchens, a tunnel with a periscope, a radio room with a ham radio, a giant dining room with an oversized banquet table made from a severed tree trunk, a den for the Jersey Devil and a curious space called the "Knockout" room, where people could get whacked on the noggin with a heavy object hung from a rope -- to wipe out bad memories of the Depression.

    Daynor, whom Tirante calls the "P.T. Barnum of his time," was involved in numerous scandals throughout his years, and the attention he craved eventually led to his demise. In 1957 Daynor was jailed over false testimony to the FBI concerning a child abduction case. He claimed that the kidnappers had taken the child to his Palace, but later confessed the testimony was a publicity stunt.

    While Daynor was in jail, vandals ruined the Palace. Then a series of fires led the town to declare the remains a nuisance. Daynor died in 1964, and what was left of the Palace of Depression was leveled five years later.

    Tirante has always been obsessed with the Palace, so much so that he married his wife, Carol Della Penna, in the Palace's Poe-esque, sepulcher-like ticket booth, the only portion that survived.

    After Tirante read an article about Kevin Kirchner, the president of the Palace's Restoration Association and a construction official for the Vineland Licenses and Inspection Department, he sent Kirchner a copy of his wedding picture. Kirchner was already two years into a restoration effort, so Tirante joined him.

    Tirante pieced together the lost design through photographs, postcards, and footage from The Fantastic Palace, a 1938 Universal Pictures documentary. He accumulated old newspaper articles, a collection of Daynor's letters and oral accounts from Daynor's neighbors and acquaintances; all helped him to get an image of Daynor's original creation. After many nights on the phone discussing various discoveries with Kirchner, Tirante came to him with a sculpted model, which is now the basis for the project.

    Last April, Kirchner acquired a permit to start building at the original Palace site, which is owned by the city of Vineland. The new palace will also be made of junk, but instead of car parts, the refurbishers are using leftovers from construction sites. Kirchner has contacted construction companies in the area -- many are part of the 300-member Restoration Association -- and in recent months various contractors, such as John Chupasko Demolition, have dumped rubble from demolished buildings, sidewalks and even a Philadelphia rowhome at the Palace for use in its new construction. Local construction suppliers like Kennedy Concrete and Allen Associates have provided material for new mortar. D'Agastino Construction cleared the trees and overgrowth. Ralph Rambone Demolition dug the foundation. Callen Construction designed the footings, the concrete base on which the walls will be set. All services were donated.

  3. world wide recycle started in 1991

  4. thats way too broad

    are you talking about the recycle program in america or in general? recycling has been done for ages by poor people in south america but they arent paid by the government- they collect trash and use it.

  5. 1897 The first recycling center is established in New York City.

  6. plato 400 b.c

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycle

    but after that it became prominent during the wartimes to reuse old products to help create more products for the war - bullets - plastic - blankets

  7. I have been recycling paper for 40 years.

  8. Back in 1962, when bill r jefferson started playing music with stevie hicks old coke bottle.!!

    Exact date: August 17 1962
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